“Here, where the air is loaded with iodine and where the ultra-violet ray is ever-present in our smiling sunshine, your health and happiness is our business.”
Sun Fun in New Jersey
(1946 publication of the New Jersey Resort Association)

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

The Cloistered Nuns (Versus the Realm of Realism)

The cloistered nuns are furious, a man has bought the land next to their convent for his new office building with third story windows. Their convent garden wall is only two stories high.

"We try to understand progress,"says an old nun speaking with an outsiderfor the first time in decades,"but this development would ruin us."

Another one of my older poems I think has improved with age. I tinkered with it a lot, but the major decision was the voice I would use breaking into the poem in the 4th stanza, as if to say, "Let's get some emotion in here" before returning to flat pronouncement of the last two stanzas. Plus the 6, 4, 4, 4, 2 ,2 structure, it a playful poem underneath.